Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she is typically in her Spice Merchant uniform. She wears her silver hair down. She has a dull look in her brown eyes.

Personality: She considers herself the protector of her home. She feels this is her duty and calling. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: She was born in a small mountains village. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Spice Merchant. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job.

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Job, Guardian, Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: Standing 6'2", this man has the majority of his body covered in plate. His chestnut hair is lengthy. His black eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. He refers to his adoptive father for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. His father disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his father, he was betrayed dozens of times. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Jeweler and was forced into it by his family; and retire the richest man in the west

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 1100 gp. Citrine (70 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (4 gp). Jet (70 gp). Deep green spinel (70 gp). Peridot (70 gp). Deep blue spinel (1600 gp).

Description: She wears a black cloak and cross-gartered brown stockings. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her nunchaku, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a card on it. Her hair is long and red with streaks of white, and is pulled back with small black clips. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Ownka was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Ostracized due to the arcane powers of her oldest sister, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Half-Orcs became a terror of the countryside. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Cook for the past few years.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and expand her business

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Job, In love. Occupation: Cook

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: An older man who prefers to wear violet pants and tee shirts, he is not a threatening figure. He has moderate length auburn hair. His green eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Halimath is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family As a very small child his family refused to pay dues to a local crime lord, who ordered them killed. His father, a somewhat powerful mage sought to protect him and cast a teleportation spell that whisked him away. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Criminal record, Family, Guardian. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 2000 gp. Chrysoprase (70 gp). Citrine (70 gp). Rhodochrosite (13 gp). Tourmaline (80 gp). Silver pearl (80 gp). Red spinel (80 gp). Black pearl (1000 gp). Tourmaline (80 gp). Lapis lazuli (13 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.